Jamie Dimon Quotes
You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology.
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I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.
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My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.
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Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.
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I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
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It is very difficult to be taken seriously when you're introduced at a party to somebody as the fourth Mrs. Rex Harrison.
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Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.
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I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
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The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.
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I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.
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The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
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That is one of the coolest things about WWE and wrestling in general. The fans have this very unique voice and this very unique power, and in no other sport and no other form of entertainment can the fans make their voices heard and it effect change.
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There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
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I love Lee Ann Womack and John Prine. That's kind of my ideal cross point. If I can sing it like Lee Ann would and say it like John would, then I feel like I've gotten somewhere.
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Certainly, R.E.M. grew out of the Wuxtry record store in Athens, where Peter Buck was working and Michael Stipe came in to visit. And even their later manager, Bertis Downs, they all met and congregated at that record store. So I'm sure we wouldn't see those without the record store.
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The highest expression of all morality is: Be!
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Thus they shall not miss this particular branch of the many branches of the Law and will have no need to roam and ramble about in other books in search of information on matters set forth in this treatise.
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No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing, blundering in the dark. We were always in the right place at the wrong time, the wrong place at the right time, always just missing each other, always just a few inches from figuring the whole thing out. That's what the story boils down to, I think. A series of lost chances. All the pieces were there from the beginning, but no one knew how to put them together.
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Some questions cannot be answered, but they can be decided.
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Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but there's a feeling that life is interconnected, that there's life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.
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The word 'Chicano' was originally a derisive term from Mexicans to other Mexicans living in the United States.
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You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology.
